‘I am Cuba’ named one of the top 5 lying propaganda films in history
ScreenJunkies.com has chosen the Castro propaganda classic "I am Cuba" as one of the top five blatantly lying propaganda films of all time. Right up there with Hitler's "Triumph of the Will":
"I Am Cuba"
This propaganda movie about the Communist revolution in Cuba is selling a more subtle kind of lie. But anyone familiar with the conditions in Cuba would know that the Socialist paradise hinted at in the movie is far from reality. Cinematically, though, "I Am Cuba" is one of a kind, featuring staggeringly impressive tracking shots decades before the technology to easily make those kinds of shots existed.
Interestingly, there was a documentary made in 2005 called "I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth". In it, a Brazilian documentarian travels to Cuba to discuss the long forgotten film with the people that made it. What was very interesting and revealing to me in watching this film was that the documentarian unwittingly made a film that exposes the revolution for what it is, a destructive force. You see "I am Cuba" was made very early on in the castro regime showcasing the Cuba that his revolution inherited. The locations look modern and new, the people are well-dressed. When the documentarian interviewed the filmmakers you can see the locations destroyed, the shirtless men in the street, the utter destruction of the Cuba that castro inherited that was depicted in the original film.
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